Same here. I only have H&R sports on with the orig. stock shocks. The ride is a bit bouncy but nothing that would kill me or anything...I just simply slow down when going thru bumps, dips, etc...What kills me though is now that the car is lowered (~1.3 inch), I scratched the hell out of my front bumper

Would proper camber settings help anything, i.e. ride quality, stability, tire wearage? more negative or more positive on the rears? Thanks.

car looks good, but rides like sh!t. i know i should have changed shocks/struts too and you get what you pay for but damn. i lowered my e-46 with eibach sportline and it didnt feel this crappy
any one feel the same way? i feel i may be swapping these back to stock unitll i can get kwv2. venting.....

thanks

yes, they suck ass... car was so wobbly and bouncy.

I just replaced them with KW V2's. OMG day and night difference. my car wasnt a BMW, it was a toyota with H&R's. Maybe it'll improve if you put on shocks

I just replaced them with KW V2's. OMG day and night difference. my car wasnt a BMW, it was a toyota with H&R's. Maybe it'll improve if you put on shocks

It will most definitely improve. Crappy ride quality is expected with unmatched springs/shocks. With coilovers, the match is guaranteed (which is why you see the improvement). When you just throw springs on there, you should expect a bad ride quality. Personally, i've found the koni yellows to match up perfectly with the h&r's, so good ride quality can be had with h&r's, but obviously not with the stock shocks.

I wonder if any E90 328i owners can chime in? My 328i with the Sport Suspension, Style 161 wheels and the stock run flats are bouncy and stiff as hell!! I feel the car crashes over broken pavement and bounces too much on dips. My car has only 6500 miles on it. I've started to get used to it but driving a friend's E90 335i with the 162's and Sport Suspension rides a lot smoother than mine. I don't get that since the 162's are riding on the stock runflats also but maybe since it's a slimmer sidewall it's not as stiff as the larger sidewall of a 17" runflat tire? Does that make sense?

I've just bought some Beyern Mesh wheels in 19" and am going with just the H&R Sports and I feel that leaving those horrible runflats behind, coupled with the 19's on normal tires is still going to give me a better ride than the horrible one I have now with the stock runflats.

i think that u are spinning this topic up a bit. if u have zsp then your shocks should last 50k miles when lowered on h&r sports

I rode in somebody's 335 with sport package, and H&R springs (not race, just sport). He said he had it installed about 5k-6k miles ago (~3 months on his kind of mileage per month), and the car definitely felt like crap from the shocks being way too weak to work properly with the springs.

I am spinning this topic up a bit, and it's because so many people put on just springs on stock shocks and at first the car handles fine since there isn't much change but a slightly stiffer spring rate. And after a few thousand miles, the shocks blow out and the car handles and rides like junk. Stock shocks combined with stiffer and shorter aftermarket springs is bad advice to give to other members.

Do you have 50k miles on your stock shocks with H&R springs? I'm willing to bet that putting on a set of Konis or Bilsteins will make a huge difference to your car.

No strut lasts 50K miles. Manufacturer specs typcially require struts to be replaced every 25K. Now, that's not to say people don't run them for 100K+, but those are certainly not operating within manufacturer spec any longer. You'd be surprised how many people drive around with 2 blown struts and never know. I'm sure the ratio is a lot less with BMW enthusiasts, but not 0%.

Either way, on some cars a spring only upgrade works fine, and on others it doesn't. I find most of the comments on this forum are negative, which leads me to believe it's not a great option, particularly for the driving enthusiast. For the cruisers who are more about show than go, it sounds fine.